Visit Malaysia Year Haiku - Malacca Megamall (State Of Malacca) Poem by john tiong chunghoo

dwarfing the
great treasures
malacca mega mall

Heroes Square, the victor
in the scream for attention
malacca mega mall

I visited Malacca for the first time on Saturday and Sunday (July 11 and 12) after it was a Unesco World Heritage Site last year. However, I was quite disappointed when I walked around the State most famous icon the Fort A' Famosa or Fort Santiago built by the Portuguese in the 16th century. Dwarfing the whole heritage site is the Malacca Megamall which is an ultra modern huge shopping complex. It is a sprawling complex linked to Dataran Pahlawan or Heroes Square which somehow make the real treasures here look so small and insignificant. These include the Independence Museum, and some
very old catholic missionary schools. I felt those large modern structures should be built away from the heritage site so that the latter would look prominent.